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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp

Rep Jamie Raskin compares US to ancient civilisations that ‘practiced human sacrifice’ in gun violence hearings

ABC

Rep Jamie Raskin has compared modern-day America to ancient civilisations that “practiced human sacrifice” as “innocent children” are sacrificed every day to the nation’s “bogus” reading of the Second Amendment.

The Democratic congressman spoke during a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday morning where mass shooting victims, survivors and witnesses spoke out following a string of massacres including in the racist attack in Buffalo, New York, and school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

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